The Washington Spirit have been the NWSL’s busiest team this offseason, and that trend has continued over the last 24 hours. Yesterday, the team announced that they would waive six players, and today a report from the Washington City Paper says the club will make a major trade to acquire USWNT defender Emily Sonnett from the Orlando Pride.
According to that piece by Kelyn Soong, the Spirit would be moving midfielder Meggie Dougherty Howard, the #9 pick in the upcoming NWSL College Draft, a 2023 first round pick, and some unknown amount of allocation money to Orlando to acquire Sonnett.